Obadiah 1:4

4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

Obadiah 1:4 in Other Translations

KJV
4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
ESV
4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
NLT
4 But even if you soar as high as eagles and build your nest among the stars, I will bring you crashing down,” says the LORD .
MSG
4 Think again. Even if, like an eagle, you hang out on a high cliff-face, Even if you build your nest in the stars, I'll bring you down to earth." God's sure Word.
CSB
4 Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down. [This is]* the Lord's declaration.

Obadiah 1:4 In-Context

2 “See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers in the night— oh, what a disaster awaits you!— would they not steal only as much as they wanted? If grape pickers came to you, would they not leave a few grapes?
6 But how Esau will be ransacked, his hidden treasures pillaged!

Cross References 3

  • 1. S Isaiah 10:14; Habakkuk 2:9
  • 2. S Isaiah 14:13
  • 3. S Job 20:6
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